Illegal immigrant Saul Chavez posted bail and walked out of the Cook County jail in 2011 after killing a man while driving drunk. County authorities ignored a request, from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Chavez has fled and is believed to be in Mexico. (Cook County Department of Corrections)

Family members of a Chicago man killed in 2011 by a drunk driver are steaming mad at city officials for failing to bring the driver’s illegal immigration status to the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when they first learned about it, four years ago.

A 2008 police report shows local authorities learned Saul Chavez was an illegal immigrant following an unrelated arrest that year, but did nothing about it.

On June 8, 2011, Chavez was driving drunk in the Logan Square Neighborhood of Chicago when his car hit and killed long-time insurance agent Denny McCann, 66.

Chavez’s blood-alcohol content was 0.29 percent, more than three times the legal limit.

Witnesses said that on impact McCann cracked the windshield of Chavez’s 2002 Dodge Neon and then tumbled forward. But the driver tried to flee, running him over and dragging him 200 feet with the car. McCann died that night.

Chavez was already a convicted drunk driver when he ran down McCann, and a police report obtained by the Daily Caller shows that he told police during a Sept. 20, 2008 DUI arrest that he was in the United States illegally.

The report also reveals that when Chicago Police asked Chavez for his license and vehicle registration that night, Chavez responded, “I live in Chicago on Kedzie [Street]. I don’t have a driver’s license because I don’t have papers.” (RELATED: Read the 2008 police report)

McCann’s family members say police should have turned Chavez over to ICE, the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration law. Had ICE been called, they argue, Denny McCann would be alive today.

Instead, Denny is dead and Chavez is on the run. He fled after posting bail last year and law enforcement agencies have not located him.

In addition to his Chicago residence, Chavez has an address near Mexico City.

“I can think of at least twenty people that knew that Chavez was illegal and didn’t say anything to ICE,” said Brian McCann. “We as a family want those responsible to take responsibility for failing to report him to ICE, but we don’t expect that to happen.”

McCann said he hopes public officials who failed to notify ICE of Chavez’s illegal immigration status will issue a public apology and acknowledge their role in his brother’s death.

That group, he said, includes everyone who saw the arrest report: the arresting officer, his superiors, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Cook County Probation Department, and probation Judge William T. O’Brien. They all, McCann told TheDC, had a responsibility to report Chavez to ICE.

Chavez spent 17 months going in and out of Judge O’Brien’s court room between his 2008 conviction and February 8, 2011, when O’Brien signed off on Chavez’s successful probation completion. During that time, the police report documenting Chavez’s confession that he was undocumented was available to the judge, state’s attorney and the Department of Probation.

But an ICE representative told The Daily Caller last month that the agency wasn’t made aware of Chavez’s existence until 2011, after he killed Denny McCann.

Reached for comment, the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez refused to accept any responsibility.

In an email statement, a spokesperson wrote that “Notifying ICE is not the responsibility of the State’s Attorney’s office; you need to contact the Chicago Police Department or the Cook County Sheriff’s office regarding this issue.”